The Summer Reading Challenge Starts Today!

Reading Challenge

Ages 12 and under are invited to participate in our Summer Reading Challenge!

Collect your Reading Logs from the Youth Services Department starting June 1st– July 21st.

Your Reading Log contains activities and questions. Complete all the activities by July 28th to be entered in a drawing for special End of Summer Grand Prizes

Bring your Reading Log back to the library each week beginning on June 10th and receive a special prize for keeping up with your reading. Receive an extra raffle prize entry for completing all 7 weeks!

**Weekly incentives are given while supplies last.

In order to provide an enjoyable library experience for all, we regret that groups of 10 or more must make arrangements to attend the following programs in advance. Group supervisors must be with children at all times. Thank You!

Storytime Programs

Let’s Get Together-a story experience that begins with age appropriate stories for the little ones and evolves into a program for older siblings to enjoy as well.

Every Tuesday 10am

6/5 Be A Star

6/12 Big Daddy

6/19 Slumber Party Stories

6/26 Bump in the Night

7/3 Big Boom

Special Guest Andy Armadillo from Texas Roadhouse

7/10 When I Grow Up

7/17 Space Stories

7/24 Counting Sheep

Family Time– A whole family program designed for children of all ages featuring group activities, stories, and more. Parents, caregivers, and older siblings are encouraged to participate.

Every Tuesday 7pm

6/5 Star Light, Star Bright

6/12 My Hero

6/19 Ssh! I’m Sleeping (wear your PJs!)

6/26 Wild Rumpus

Special Guest Author Stephanie Sisler of Matthew’s Monsters  (books will be available for $11)

7/3 Explosive Summer

7/10 Once Upon a Dream

7/17 Mission Control

7/24 Another Arabian Night

Wednesday Children's Events

June 6th

10 am Horse Tales Literacy Program

All Ages. Join us for our kick-off event featuring our special guests from the Horse Tales Literacy Project. Hear stories about horses and meet the horse ambassadors.

3pm Building Dreams with Dr Diana

Ages 6 & up. Inventions, experiments, innovation...it all starts with a dream. Join Dr Diana as she shares hands on projects to get young minds  dreaming about science.

June 13th

10am Mad Hatter Tea Party

Ages 6 & under. Bring your own outlandish hat or make one to take home. Features stories, treats, games, and more.

3pm Rainforest Rhapsody

Ages 6 & up. Enjoy Ballet D’Esprit  as they perform with their feathered  friends.

June 20th

10am Candyland Live

Ages 6 & under. Become a life-size game piece in our live version of the popular children’s board game.

3pm Angry Birds Live

Ages 6 & up. Come help the birds get their eggs back from those mean green pigs, featuring crafts and games.

June 27th

10am Whoo’s There?

Ages 6 & under. A special event featuring a puppet show, stories and crafts all about owls.

3pm Meet the Owls

Ages 6 & up. Join our special guests from the Florida Animal Hospital as they tell you all about these special birds. The Youth Services Department will be collecting supply donations for the Florida Animal Hospital, please check with the YS desk for a list.

 July 11th

10am Puppies in PJs

All Ages. Featuring the Space Coast Therapy Dogs for a special program all about dogs.

3pm Fairytale Theater

All Ages. Our Teen Advisory Group brings fairytales to life with their puppet show.

July 18th

10am Wild and Out of This World Things

Ages 6 & under. Bring your cameras to meet one of the Wild Things from Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are and hear more out of this world and wild stories.

3pm Martian Mania

Ages 6 & up. Join us with our special guests from NASA as we learn all about Mars.

July 25th

10am Ronald McDonald Magic

All Ages. Do you believe in Magic? The clown is back for an event filled with magic and wonder.

3pm Night Carnival with Twinkles the Clown

Ages 6 & up. It’s time for fun and games with Twinkles the Clown featuring ball tosses, bounce houses, and more.

Tuesday Tweens & Teens Events 

June 5th 3pm Zombies vs Unicorns

Are you Team Zombie or Team Unicorn? Join us for special games, crafts, and activities based on the YA book Zombies vs Unicorns.

June 12th 3pm Author Charlie Carlson and Weird Florida

Do you love urban legends and spooky myths like the ghost at Ashley’s or Spook Hill? Weird Florida Author Charlie Carlson explains the myths, legends, and extremely weird facts about our state.

June 19th 3pm Party Like a Mad Scientist

Can you laugh like a mad scientist? Can you sing the Elements song better than Daniel Radcliff? Grab your white lab coats for this special program featuring games, activities, and maybe even some slime.

June 26th 3pm Spies Like Us Debriefing

Your assignment is to participate in our very own spy games. Learn about fingerprinting, try our laser beam challenge, and learn how to create your own secret identity.

July 3rd 3pm Hunger Games Survival Challenge

If you were a Tribute in the Games, could you survive? Find out at this challenging event and learn some survival tips and tricks.

July 10th 3pm Geektastic Summer Crafts

Know the meaning of Otaku? Are you a fan of Big Bang Theory? Love the Geektastic YA novel? Let out your inner geek as we create crafts based on popular geeky favorites from video games and comic books to pop culture,

July 17th 3pm Out of this World Crafts

Do you “live long and prosper” or rely on the force? Blast off with us as we boldly go where no young padawan has gone before with trivia, crafts, and maybe some Jedi mind tricks.

July 24th 3pm Wreck this Book: Journal Writing for Teens 

Inspired by author/illustrator turned guerilla artist Keri Smith’s popular series of books, this craft project will prompt you to think beyond the pen to find great ways to be inspired. 

Special Events

Stuffed Animal Sleepover

June 19th

Bring a stuffed animal (please not the child’s favorite) to the library for our Stuffed Animal Sleepover. After you register your stuffed friend, we will keep the animal overnight at our library and take pictures of all the mischief they get into after hours.

Stuffed Animals may be collected at the library after June 20th. Any stuffed animals left after June 30th will be donated.

Pictures will be posted on our library Flickr and Facebook pages and will also be shown at the beginning of the June 26th 7pm Family Storytime. 

Bowling for Books

July 21st            2-4pm

Palm Bay Shore Lanes and the Friends of the Libraries of Palm Bay will be sponsoring a Bowling for Books event. Tickets are $10 per person which includes shoes. Purchase Tickets at the Circulation Desk.

Book Blind Date

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When we read about the Book Blind Date that the Maplewood Library held, we loved the idea so much that we decided to try it ourselves!

To celebrate National Library Week, we will be hosting our own Book Blind Date from April 8th-14th. Stop by the Reference or Youth Services Desks to pick up a selection from our collections.

It's simple! The books are wrapped in paper, so you don't know what you are going to get. Check it out, take it home to unwrap, and read. Write a short book review telling us if you loved it or hated it. Bring the review back to us by the end of the month to be entered to win a great prize!

Twilight Prize Pack

TWILIGHT FANS!

The DeGroodt TAG is sponsoring a

Twilight Prize Pack Raffle

$1 per ticket

6 for $5

  Ends Dec 10^th

Enter to win a fabulous Twilight prize pack featuring:

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (Paperback edition)

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (Trade Paperback edition)

The Host by Stephenie Meyer (Trade Paperback edition)

Twilight Saga: New Moon the official illustrated movie companion

Twilight: Jacob 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle

 (3) Twilight Themed Black & Brown Yoga Pants (size S)

Twilight Themed Brown Hoodie Sweatshirt (size S/M)

Twilight Themed Brown Hoodie Sweatshirt (size L/XL)

 (2)Twilight New Moon Jacob Black Ladies T-Shirt (size XL)

Twilight New Moon Jacob Black Ladies T-Shirt (size L)

Twilight New Moon Edward Black Ladies T-Shirt (size XL)

(3) Twilight New Moon Edward Black Ladies T-Shirt (size L)

Proceeds to support the Friends of the Libraries of Palm Bay. Tickets available in Youth Services.

Perfect for holiday gift giving.

Top Ten Ways to Know You are a Zombie!

Follow us on Twitter tonight from 5-6pm EST @DeGroodtLibrary for zombie trivia using hashtag #ZAA11. We will have even more chances to win great prizes from our partner Famous Faces and Funnies Comics and Toys.

In the meantime, here in Letterman style are the Top Ten Ways to Know You are a Zombie!

10. You realize you only like your boyfriend/girlfriend for their brains.
9. What you thought was a marathon, is actually people running in fear away from you.
8. You literally shamble to school/work in the morning.
7. You find yourself wanting to hang at the mall a lot…after hours.
6. You find “hoard” has new meaning.
5. You find yourself unable to say anything beyond “braaiinnns”
4. You develop a paralyzing fear of shotguns, baseball bats, flame throwers, and axes.
3. You not only start to lose your hair, but also fingers, toes, and ears.
2. You find it hard to make friends because you keep trying to take a bite out of them.

And the number one way to know you are a zombie…

1. You find yourself spontaneously breaking into dance moves in graveyards after dark.

Are you prepared for the Zombie Author Apocalypse?

It’s Teen Read Week at the library! The theme this year is PictureIt @ your library and in celebration we are paying homage to the classic silver screen zombies. To help us celebrate, we will have an author visit, made possible through a grant from YALSA and the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, the Satellite Beach Library and the Franklin T DeGroodt Memorial Library will host the author of the YA bestseller TheForest of Hands and Teeth, Carrie Ryan. That’s right, prepare yourself cause it is time for the Zombie Author Apocalypse. We invite you to join us all week as we discuss zombies, zombies, and more zombies.

From theme parks to commercials to television, zombies seem to be everywhere lately.  Why zombies? Many have said that they are a metaphor for today’s society and well, zombies are fun. This idea of survival has been used by companies to promote awareness of their product in new and interesting ways. Even the CDC has used the concept of surviving a zombie apocalypse to conceptualize on how if you are prepared for a zombie outbreak then you can survive anything (we Floridians know that this is really hurricane survival in the guise of zombie survival, so guess you could say we are ready).

To kick off our Zombie Author Apocalypse, we ask: What would you do to survive the pending zombie uprising? Comment below and you might just win a prize from our own Famous Faces and Funnies Comics and Toys.  All comments must be posted by the end of Teen Read Week (October 22, 2011). 

Great Scavenger Hunt Reading Challenge!

What is it?

Every month we participate in the Great Scavenger Hunt Contest hosted by YA author extraordinaire Kay Cassidy. Many of the titles have been featured on Florida Teens Read and Sunshine State Young Readers Award.  Participate for a chance to win the national drawing for a $50 gift card to the bookstore of your choice and free books for the library. There is a new winner every month. Awesome!

How it works!

1.       Check out the list of books on www.kaycassidy.com/hunt  or ask the Youth Services Librarian to show you the collection.

2.       Choose the book you want to read and print off the trivia sheet.

3.       Read the book and answer the trivia sheet.

4.       Turn the trivia sheet in to the Youth Services Librarian to be scored.

5.       Get at least 8 out of 10 correct and the librarian will enter you into the monthly contest. (Make sure your name, age, and phone number are on the sheet!)

Want to make it more interesting?

Brevard County, Florida Teens! Your mission, should you choose to accept it is the following:

·         Select 10 titles from the list to read and enter prior to Teen Read Week 2011.  TRW begins on October 16, 2011.  Our contest ends on October 21, 2011.

·         Create a campaign poster, flyer, or video (no more than 2 minutes) promoting your favorite book from the list.

·         Everyone (ages 12-18) who completes the challenge will receive 15 volunteer hours from the library.

Interested?

·         Once you have read the books, fill out the trivia sheet and turn it in to the Youth Services Librarian.

·         Create your campaign materials.  Pick out your favorite book from the list and make a poster, flyer, or video promoting the book.  Tell us, why you think other people should read this book? 

·         Email campaign materials to jhopwood@brev.org or drop them off at Youth Services by October 21^st.

·         Remember, you can enter the Great Scavenger Hunt as many times a month as you would like.

While anyone under 18 may enter The Great Scavenger Hunt, the Reading Challenge is only open to teens ages 12-18 and runs from Children’s Book Week in May to Teen Read Week in October 2011.   New titles are added to the list every month!